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I doubt anyone needs this, but I want to buy it just for the product description! It's full of gems, e.g. "Sort of sleek mobile design experience with colors, numbers, and wobbly eyes that will turn heads".

Can't tell if this is inspired by market research, or if someone at the company simply had the freedom to create something that's just fun. Kinda wish it's the latter.

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"A truly 'mobile' phone"

Phone has wheels

That's a Tesla

"You don't understand, it's not a car manufacturing company, it's a phone making company"

Fisher Price being faster than Apple in the four-wheeled mobile phone market.

At Apple the wheels cost extra.

portable too

Like the HN handle!

thanks :)

I do feel this is market research inspired. The fact that it is sold out between Thanks Giving and Christmas. This makes a brilliant secret santa gift for offices, friends, family.

It sold out in seconds when it went up on BestBuy a couple of weeks back. I had it in the cart but unable to complete the transaction.

"it makes both imaginary and real phone calls"

wonderful

My favorite line as well. Someone give this copywriter a medal.

> I want to buy it just for the product description!

there is a product demo video that does not load on the mobile app i browse HN with. you simply must see it, it is nearly a work of art.

if they werent sold out i would buy 4 of them for nieces, nephews, and my WFH desk.

Wow, I missed that, it's great!

"The past has finally arrived"

"Numbers. Colors. Eyes."

They could have totally reused the same, respectable jokes from the product description in the video, but they did something new. This is art.

Oh yeah the text is charming:

> Bluetooth® range: 15 feet; Fun: unlimited

"A real-working phone for a real adult desk"

Children love emulating what adults do. It’s how they learn and develop.

Wait, this is for children??? I’m not sure about that. I bet a range of adults would have fun with this phone on a very serious, very stern desk. Imagine interrupting an interview because your Fisher Price phone is ringing.

It's not. Check out the questions and answers section towards the bottom of the page.

This would be great, if it had a modem inside, and if you could limit the calls to only the parents.

On the other hand, how many children have actually seen any adult use any phone like this (rotary, or even any other landline)

Some years ago my then 3 year old picked up a payphone in a very remote area and said "hello, hello" into the receiver. I'm reasonably sure that is the first landline phone he ever say in his life.

If only they had picked up a http://futel.net/

Yeah but they don't read product descriptions

Actually this could be quite useful for parents who may have conditions like epilepsy or diabetes or something else where they could slip into states of unconsciousness or incapacitation. The kid could be taught from an early age to ring 911 or 999 or some other emergency number listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu... (what a anti-NWO list of numbers) and hopefully get the appropriate service just by using their Fisher Price phone. We read and hear about kids calling the emergency services all the time so I wonder how long before we get the first Fisher-Price mobile phone emergency call, which news organisations will be the first to run with it?

I feel like all the toddlers I know, including my own, would already know how to use a smartphone by the time they would be able to learn to use this phone.

We have a land line phone because I didn't want to have to teach the kids how to unlock my phone nor rely on my phone always being charged and accessible in case of emergency. The land line is always on accessible and always in the aame spot.

One other thing I thought of: a land line is tied to an address without needing the child to be able to give the address verbally. My oldest can, my youngest is still learning, but I am also assuming all bets are off if they're scared.

Also, I'm sorry for the various typos in the previous post.

FYI, all mobile phone numbers in the US have the option of being tied to an address for 911 purposes. I assume the default is the billing address, but the address can be changed to be specific to each phone number.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/account/change-your-billing...

https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base-214957/

https://asecare.att.com/tutorials/officehand-e-911-emergency...

My phone at least allows for 911 calls from the lock screen.

I distinctly remember the shock (and adults scrambling) that ensued when we discovered my 18-month-old niece figured out how to unlock an iPhone back in 2011.

That would be an obvious PR coup, but teaching a kid to use this instead of an actual phone is much less reliable in almost every way.

NWO?

New World Order

“Its intuitive bulky face design comes with a 'super-advanced' rotary dial”

I used to know someone that worked there and it always seemed like the engineers had a lot of latitude and enjoyed their jobs, so I'm guessing it bubbled up from the bottom.

If it was available here, I'd have ordered one today! Oh, the fun!

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